Resource exhaustion in App Connect Enterprise Certified Container - CVE-2022-22491

 

Resource exhaustion in App Connect Enterprise Certified Container - CVE-2022-22491

Published: April 16, 2025


Vulnerability identifier: #VU107495
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2022-22491
CWE-ID: CWE-400
Exploitation vector: Local access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vendor: IBM Corporation
Affected software:
App Connect Enterprise Certified Container

Detailed vulnerability description

The vulnerability allows a local user to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to application does not restrict writing to the local filesystem, which may result in exhausting the available storage in a Pod, resulting in that Pod being restarted. A local user can trigger resource exhaustion and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.


How to mitigate CVE-2022-22491

Install updates from vendor's website.

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